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5.5.2 Selecting a Scale and Creating Chords
MASCHINE comes equipped with a vast amount of scales and chords that you can select and
use to play your Sounds. This opens up possibilities to play an instrument such as a piano ac-
cording to, e.g., the minor pentatonic scale without hitting a “false” pad (note) on your control-
ler, or to play chords that always fit by hitting single pads.
The Scale and Chord engine is available only when your pads are in Keyboard mode.
This section provides a hands-on introduction to the use of scales and chords from your con-
troller. The corresponding parameters will be described in detail in section
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5.5.3, Scale and
Chord Parameters .
5.5.3 Scale and Chord Parameters
This section describes the Scale and Chord engine and its parameters, and provides a list of all
scales and chords available on your controller.
General Notes on Scales and Chords
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The Scale and Chord parameters are the same for all Sound slots in a particular Group, you
can have different Scale and Chord parameters for each Group. The Scale and Chord pa-
rameters of each Group are saved with the Project. However, when you save a Group the
Scale and Chord parameters are
not saved with the Group.
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The Scale and Chord engine processes live input from the pads of your controller only. In-
put from third-party MIDI controllers and data recorded in the Pattern Editor are not proc-
essed by the Scale and Chord engine.
KOMPLETE KONTROL S-SERIES owners: Input from your KOMPLETE KONTROL S-
SERIES keyboard can also be processed by the Scale and Chord engine. This is descri-
bed in section Using the Perform Features.
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The output of the Scale and Chord engine is recorded into the Pattern Editor.
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The Scale and Chord parameters cannot be modulated nor automated in MASCHINE.
Playing on the Controller
Performance Features
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